FOOTBALL TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW

If you do not know much about soccer but this feeling infects you, this article is perfect for you.

Today we want to explain some basic football terms that will be useful to you when watching or listening to a game.

• Open the scoring: When one of the teams scores the first goal of the match.
• Wave: A form of animation for the public that consists of getting up gradually from the seats in an anti-clockwise direction.
• Jump into the pool or "Pool": If a player launches without any cause into the area looking for the referee to call a penalty.
• Alignment: Disposition of the players according to the position and function assigned to each one for a certain match.
• Ball stopped: It is the ball stopped at the exact point where a foul was signaled. The shot is said to be on a stopped ball because for the resumption of play the ball must be totally stopped.
• Direct free kick: Throwing into a stopped ball where a foul has been signaled. Allows the shooter to score a goal without previously contacting another player.
• Indirect free kick: Throwing into a stopped ball where a foul has been signaled. Unlike the previous one, this shot requires contact with a player other than the pitcher, otherwise, if there is a goal it will be canceled.
• Out-of-Band: The ball will leave the field of play by one of the bands, it will only be out-of-band when the ball has completely crossed the sideline, either by air or ground.
• Out of place: A player can only be in an advanced position if he is on the side of the court that contains the goal of the opposing team. The purpose of the early position penalty is to prevent forwards from waiting too close to the goal.
• Mark: Goal.
• Penalty: Direct free kick from the penalty area, is a direct duel between the shooter and the goalkeeper.
• Shrink spaces: Game plan based on reducing spaces.
• Game change: Pass made from one side to the other of the field, crossing the trajectory of the ball. This in order to change the origin of the attack.
• Counterattack: Moment in which a team recovers the ball and tries to reach the opposite goal as quickly as possible before their opponents organize.
• Bottling: Pressing the opponent without letting him play beyond the midfield.
• Shoot the goalkeeper : Score a goal with a strong shot on goal.
• Hand in hand with the goalkeeper: If an attacker tries to elude the goalkeeper to score a goal.
• Barrier: Row of players placed in front of their goal to protect it from an opposite launch. It is applied after signaling a foul.
• Defense forward: Set of players who form a line of defense and play in an area more advanced than usual (close to the center of the field) with the aim of hindering the advance of the opposing team.
• Bicycle: Rapid movement of legs with which a player evades the opponent's mark.
• Chilean: Shot or clearance of the ball with 2 feet in the air. It consists of hitting the ball backwards with the body in the air and in a horizontal position.
• Depth Pass: Throw the ball to the other side of the field.
• Gambeta: Gambetear is the advance of a footballer dribbling and twisting the direction of his trajectory in short curves to avoid the rival.

Now that you know a little more, it is time to enjoy the games with the greatest soccer feeling.!!